I guess Hemp and Hemp Products as supported by the new Farm Bill do not get to use the logo and program either? What about businesses that get busted for Federal law violations? EPA, Labor, Safety...Do they automatically get excluded and the list updated? This might be an interesting lawsuit, news story follow-up and public interest story.

Does the health board of El Paso have scientific proof with a preponderance of evidence of what they just published as fact without public meetings on the subject? Do they understand and why are they not publishing the same as alcohol standard of basis and also the UNDER 21 standards of practice? The basis of what they did with this is very legally suspect if someone proves standing if not pure constitutional in core basis.

I was called and told to take the new logo down from my web site...because of the word "cannabis!" I said, "Gladly!" I have had 500 people come from other states and visit, paying all the "tourist" taxes! …Shine A Light
Michelle L LaMay M.A., the Dean & CEO
Cannabis University™Inc of Colorado & Illinois & Michigan
1-303-886-7998http://www.cannabisuniversitycolorado.com/

Gurordori, the current drug testing methods are really messed up, especially in a state where people have MMJ, leaving the RMJ issue alone. I think that will change sooner rather than later. As for the no-knock thing -- yeah, that hasn't been working out too well lately. That needs to go too.

RMJ & MMJ are still a Schedule I Narcotic just so the feds have the right to NO KNOCK and break down the door of ANY citizen in the USA with probable cause as an excuse.

It also prevents updating of employment laws like the one on my job where even MMJ patients can be fired just for not passing a drug test and using during work hours, but if I am arrested for DWI with alcohol, my job doesn't have the right to fire me because there is a law against firing someone just cause they got arrested.

I hope Medical-marijuana patient Bob Crouse gets $$$ from the city for what DA May put him thru with the bogus arrest and mistreatment of his MMJ plants. Maybe now the city will take us MMJ patients more seriously with how they treat us according to the COLORADO STATE LAW!

Too bad, so sad. The only effect these counties will have from the sales will be the portion they get for their schools and that's it. The rest is people sitting in their homes with the goodies they purchased in another county, not effecting the prohibitionists in their county. No retail, no spoils, you missed out. Think about it when you're repealing your moratoriums when Denver, Larimer and Boulder counties are making bank and able to finance municipal projects.

The voters legalized marijuana,not the politicians,,as long as you have anyone in a position of authority that still believes the government propaganda that marijuana is a dangerous drug you have a time bomb waiting to go off and cost untold funding trying to counteract,,see the regulations politicians are adding and the taxes that already has the retail price for legal marijuana more than the street price.
It is impossible to take a plant that grows anywhere for pennies a gram and expect to corner the market selling it for even $10 a gram,,people will grow it and sell it for a living as long as any market allows it.

NO on Proposition AA is NOT an "anti-marijuana tax" effort. Taxes are acceptable when similar to Alcohol, however, Denver total taxes could be as much as over 50 per cent, which is UNREASONABLE!
PLEASE do the Voters a Favor and Get it Right, please!

* Illegal Drug Cartels cannot operate without the support of politicians, bureaucrats, and police officers.

* Prohibition has been a slow but relentless degradation (death by a zillion cuts) of all our cherished national and international institutions that will leave us crippled for numerous generations.

* The US federal government is now the most dangerous and corrupt corporation on the planet; it is solely comprised of traitorous, lying hucksters who spy on us—in the MPICIC (military/police industrial corporate intelligence complex), the 99% are all probable suspects.

* In 1989, The Kerry Committee found that the United States Department of State had made payments to drug-traffickers. Concluding, that even members of the U.S. State Department, themselves, were involved in drug trafficking. Some of the payments were made even after the traffickers had been indicted by federal law enforcement agencies - or even while these traffickers were under active investigation by these same agencies.

* The involvement of the CIA in running Heroin from Vietnam, Southeast Asia and Afghanistan, and Cocaine from Central America, has been well documented, by the 1989 Kerry Committee report, academic researchers Alfred McCoy and Peter Dale Scott and the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Gary Webb.

* The United States jails a larger percentage of it's own citizens than any other country in the world, including those run by all the other worst totalitarian regimes, yet it has far higher use/addiction rates than most other countries.

* As with torture, prohibition is a grievous crime against humanity. If you support it, or even simply tolerate it by looking the other way while others commit it, you are an accessory to a very serious moral transgression against humanity.

* The United States re-legalized certain drug use in 1933. The drug was alcohol, and the 21st amendment re-legalized its production, distribution and sale. Both alcohol consumption and violent crime dropped immediately as a result. And very soon after, the American economy climbed out of that same prohibition engendered abyss into which it had foolishly fallen.

The United States has tried to control the use and sale of marijuana since about 1913. The first law was originally passed in El Paso, TX as racial prejudice against Mexican immigrants.

Like the laws against illegal immigrants, this law has been the biggest failure in the history of law enforcement. It is easy to go buy "grass" anytime in all parts of Colorado Springs, or Colorado, or anywhere in the United States. You can do it now. Colorado College and Palmer High School are both popular places to get the stuff. A major marijuana farm was discovered during the waldo canyon fire. It is everywhere. (Incidentally, you can also hire some illegal mexican immigrants any day of the week. It is also easy. Just pour some concrete. They will be there, and if you don't hire them, you won't get the concrete done.)

Over one hundred years of law enforcement on marijuana has failed. When we passed the Prohibition Laws, we created the environment that allowed the Mafia to flourish in the United States. The marijuana laws are now creating the Mexican Drug Cartel. It would be refreshing if our "stupid Political Leaders" would grow up, legalize this stuff, and get the hell out of the way.

We learned to legalize booze because there was no choice. There are now a number of legal businesses supplying the booze in the United States. (This includes Colorado's flourishing beer industry.) If our stupid leaders would wake up, we could have equally successful businesses who pay taxes for selling Marijuana. But, No! We would rather be stupid and send millions to Mexico. And spend millions more trying to arrest a tidal wave.

All political leaders and all law enforcement leaders need to admit reality.

Continuing to try to enforce laws against marijuana is just stupid.

PS. I am 67 years old and I don't use marijuana, I don't use booze, and I don't drink beer. But I know people are going to do all of that. Legalize it and make a profit.

The fact that we have canabinoid receptors in our bodies proves that thc has been pertinent to the evolution and sustainability of human civilization for a loooong time. They have discovered, as well, that the catalyst for creating proteins from stem cells is caffeine. Cup of cocoa anyone?